False Teacher of the Day #28: Billy Graham
Jul 2, 2021 2:17:30 GMT -5
Post by Berean on Jul 2, 2021 2:17:30 GMT -5
False Teacher of the Day #28: Billy Graham
By
REFORMATION CHARLOTTE
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JUNE 30, 2021
Billy Graham has long been heralded as Evangelicalism’s greatest preacher in modern history and is nearly canonized as a saint by Evangelicals of all types. Yet, despite his popularity, charity, and seemingly moral character, his theology was grossly unbiblical reaching the point of rank heresy at times. This is why Billy Graham makes #28 in our False Teacher of the Day series.
Billy Graham no doubt had some great moments of preaching throughout his career and his crusades garnered, at times, hundreds of thousands of people. Many true believers owe their conversion to Graham’s preaching. Of course, it would better be said that they owe their conversion to God who, despite Graham’s serious errors, used Graham’s preaching to convert them. There is no doubt about that–at times, he did appear to faithfully preach Christ and Him crucified.
But it’s those other times–when he actually denied Christ and the resurrection–that places Graham into the camp of false teacher.
Billy Graham was undoubtedly an ecumenicalist as he praised the pope as his “brother” and treated Roman Catholicism as a valid expression of the Christian faith.
“I think he’s with the Lord, because he believed,” Graham said of the pope. “He believed in the Cross. That was his focus throughout his ministry, the Cross, no matter if you were talking to him from a personal issue or an ethical problem, he felt that there was the answer to all of our problems, the cross, and the resurrection. And he was a strong believer.”
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By
REFORMATION CHARLOTTE
-
JUNE 30, 2021
Billy Graham has long been heralded as Evangelicalism’s greatest preacher in modern history and is nearly canonized as a saint by Evangelicals of all types. Yet, despite his popularity, charity, and seemingly moral character, his theology was grossly unbiblical reaching the point of rank heresy at times. This is why Billy Graham makes #28 in our False Teacher of the Day series.
Billy Graham no doubt had some great moments of preaching throughout his career and his crusades garnered, at times, hundreds of thousands of people. Many true believers owe their conversion to Graham’s preaching. Of course, it would better be said that they owe their conversion to God who, despite Graham’s serious errors, used Graham’s preaching to convert them. There is no doubt about that–at times, he did appear to faithfully preach Christ and Him crucified.
But it’s those other times–when he actually denied Christ and the resurrection–that places Graham into the camp of false teacher.
Billy Graham was undoubtedly an ecumenicalist as he praised the pope as his “brother” and treated Roman Catholicism as a valid expression of the Christian faith.
“I think he’s with the Lord, because he believed,” Graham said of the pope. “He believed in the Cross. That was his focus throughout his ministry, the Cross, no matter if you were talking to him from a personal issue or an ethical problem, he felt that there was the answer to all of our problems, the cross, and the resurrection. And he was a strong believer.”
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